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Show An Independent Paper Published Under :: the Management of J. 71 Goodwin :: ;t " b EDITORIALS B Y jflDGE C. C. GOOD WIN ,f ' Mining In Utah A good while ago this journal declared that he legislature of Utah ought to set aside a small appropriation to he used hy the governor and . the mining and stock exchange, to promote pros it pecting, for mining has from the ilrst been the i paramount Industry of Utah so far as progress i and a higher enlightenment are concerned. I Men will say agriculture is the paramount in dustry for the one great essential for a people is food for men and animals. No one will dispute that, but that does not make a people great. The good book tells how beautifully the I garden was prepared for a home for the first man and woman, but if likewise tells that so soon as the man and woman ate the forbidden I fruit and because of it were given wisdom to ' k distinguish right from wrong they were fired out, IT and a flaming sword was swung from the gate ? to prevent their return. I ' & Then they attracted no more attention, neither Y did their descendents until in the streams and hills f were found two substances, which later were dis- ! covered to bo indestructable, malleable, ductile I and carrying a lustre which not oven, fire could destroy. Then men began to exchange what they In a certain time could gather of the world's foods ' IE for what of these metals other men could gather ' L in the same time. In that way barter began. ,1 If it required a day to run down and capture a E deer, whem the hunter had a surplus of venison, . he was glad to exchange some of it for as much i of the yellow or whit metal as it required the m same time to gather. After a while it was found ' P that these metals could be melted and cast in . ft rude molds. A little later it was seen that the E man who had some of the little bars could buy anything his neighbor possessed with them, from 1 his dog to his daughter, and it was found that m if a tribe that possessed a large amount of the ,. K metals, was assailed by another tribe it was ' K. easy to hire fighters to beat the enemy off. It m was found, too, that laborers could be hired with W them; then the building of .houses was begun , I and architecture was born. Young men dlscov- II ored, too, that if they could supply their best girls I with bangles and nuggets for ear and nose orna- 1 ments, it was the swiftest way to their hearts. I Then some one possessed of an abundance of ft these materials hit upon the idea of loaning ft some of them to be returned in increased quan- , ft. titles when the harvests were gathered. In that k' way the Interest scheme was found. ', ft- " Finally when tribes advanced to nations, the ft happy thought struck some chief to declare that ' K the state should issue these substances and de- m clare the value thereof. Since then the advance 1IM- oi- natlns has (been rated by the amount of these t substances that they could command and the volume of these that a nation has possessed (has exactly measured its enlightenment. The men of Utah who have watched the changes that have been wrought hero in the past two score years need no arguments to convince them what mining has done for the state. Its .effects shine out in every direction. It is the current that has electrifled business in every direction. di-rection. It has materialized in stately edifices, in creating new industries; it has doubled the prices of labor and the prices of all Utah products; prod-ucts; a blow to it always gives business a black eye and the most essential thing for Utah's prosperity pros-perity is to have prospecting renewed over all the hills and deserts of the state. General Grant THE Oregonian of April 5th, republished from the Oregonian of April 5th, 1865 this item: The wires bring the news at last that Richmond Rich-mond is taken by the Union forces. Grant has struck his momentous blow at the moment when it would be most effective. Sherman is marching march-ing north with his trained battalions and is invincible, in-vincible, but it needed that Grant should at this moment attack and take Richmond to set the seal of this now imperishable fame. The taking of Richmond carries the conviction that soon Lee's army will be routed and ruined and that peace is on the way. Since that paragraph was written, a half century cen-tury has rolled away, and for almost thirty years General Grant has been hushed in his dreamless sleep on the highlands above the Hudson, but he is not yet comprehended or appreciated by one man out of every hundred thousand of his own countrymen. Major General Grenville M. Dodge who served under him ascribes for him the first place among soldiers, first "in all the history of warfare," war-fare," and "as a citizen and 'statesman," the "peer of- the 'best that the world has produced," and eventually the world will come pretty nearly reaching the same conclusion. General Robert E. Lee, since the war has been idealized as the great captain of the Civil war iby the aristocracy of the south and especially by the aristocracy of Great Britain, but Lee never took the offensive and won any battle, never won any battle after "stonewall" Jackson died. On the other hand Grant never lost a battle and never attacked an enemy that he did not destroy him or capture him. And think of the list of those who met him Buckner, both the great Johnstons, Beauregard, Pemberton, Bragg and finally Lee. Then though persecuted and assailed for years by .Halleck and a hostile press in the north, not one word of complaint was ever heard from him, though after the capture of Donnelson lie outlined out-lined a plan to capture the whole Mississippi valley in a swift campaign and save the vast losses in men and property that followed. His final capture of Vicksburg was a triumph as great as ever Caesar, Bonaparte or Frederick the Great achieved. He did it, too, when all the great officers around him thought it Im possible, and General iSherman wrote to Secre- H tary Chase that it must fail. This letter was re- turned to Grant. Ho put it in his pocket and H kept it until the morning of Pemberton's final H surrender, then handed it to Sherman saying: H "General, you 'had better destroy that, you don't want such letters as that floating around the H country." H The heart of the man shone out when dictat- H ing the terms of surrender at Vicksburg. Ho H wrote, "The army will take their horses with them," remarking "they will want them to put in their crops." Grant was mud-bespattered, dressed in plain clothes with no insignia of rank upon H him, except the stars of a lieutenant general. H On the other hand Leo was in new and beautiful H uniform and wearing the bo-jewieled $10,000 sword that the citizens of Richmond had pre- sented to him. H As Grant sat at the little table writing the terms his eyes fell upon this sword. Ho turned again to the table and added, "The officers will retain their side arms." H After Mr. Lincoln's death President Johnson H proposed to arrest and put on trial General Leo H and his fellow officers. H General Grant called at once upon him and told him that those officers must not be molested H so long as they kept their parole. Johnson be- H gan to bluster when Grant stopped him with the J statement that he had the full authority to receive flfl the surrender and the terms must be kept. H Next to Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant was the M greatest man of the great war. The Jefferson Day Banquet jH AS the story ran, the preacher asked the i Arkansas boy where his brother Jake was, the boy replied that Jake was in the kitchen with M "the yaller girl." The preacher declared that tha . H was bad. The boy responded that he know it, IH that Jake knew it but that it was the best that l Jake could do. M Some people were reminded of that on Sun- M day morning last when they read of Mir. Tbur- H man's nomination of President Wilson for a sec- fl ond term and the enthusiastic ratification of the nomination by the six hundred deciples of Jeffer- H son and Jackson who had gathered at a Jefferson- M Ian birthday festival with grapejuice accompani- H ment. H If the imention of the president's name could H have so stirred them with only grapejuice to . drink, what would have happened had the bever- II ago borne the "Old Crow" brand of Jackson's wfl time? IH It is a good thing to have a discreet chair- H man; one who does not go too much into partic- jSH ulars, but who can launch a cluster of lauditory H adjectives like a full Ibattery of field guns at JKM the men in the trenches, Mr. Thurman has many JU of the elements of a great captain. "! We can imagine that he exhausted a good deal 1H of thought on how he should, in his speech, lead wm up to that nomination, until, happily, he thought HH of Tennyson and repeated to ills own soul a jH stanza of "The Charge of the Light Brigade.': JM H Then a thought atruck him and he said to him- H; solf: "What a Coincidence? There) were six H hundred of them, wo shall have the same num- H iber. They Avere in a close place, so are we." H Then ho began to repeat to himself the sec- H ond stanza: H "Forward the Light Brigade! HI Was there a anan dismayed? H Not tho' the soldiers knew H Some one had blundered " H Then ho stopped and said, "No, no, we don't Hj admit that." H Then he began to paraphrase tho remainder H of the stanza and made it read this way: H "Their's not to raise a cry, H Their's not to reason why, fl Their's but to vote and lie If for thevcauso necessarl; j Our bravo six hundred." flfl He then submitted tho revised edition to his H partner, General Wedgowood, who read it and H said tho poem as revised was more like Ben H Jonson's, not a masterpiece as a poem, 'but H wonderfully true. H Thus reinforced, Mr. Thurman went to the H banquet entirely confident that 'he could preside H and hold the herd level, and he did. Hj It is a little early to start the campaign for H next year, but who shall say that the banquet H on Saturday night was not an auspicious curtain H raiser? M Abraham Lincoln H HTHE semi-centennial of the death of Abraham H Lincoln occurred on Thursday last. On H February 22nd, 18GC, ten months after his death. H Memorial services were held for him in the H great hall of the house of representatives. The H president and his cabinet, senators and repre- H sentatives, the supreme court judges foreign H ambassadors and ministers, governors of states, H high army and navy officers, with all the fore- H most ladles in the capitol attended. The liall H was decorated with creped American flags and H white flowers; the air was softened by solemn H music. H Tlio great historian, George Bancroft, deliv- H ered the funeral eulogy. It was in full keeping H with the impressive surroundings. H His opening words should be read by every H American, on every return of the anniversary of H the day on which the patient and marvelous Lin- H coin died. They were as follows. H "That God rules in tho affairs of men is as H certain as any other truth of physical science. H "On tho great moving Power which is from H the beginning, hangs the world of the senses; of H thought and action. H "Eternal wisdom marshals the great proces- H sion of the nations, working in patient continuity H through the ages; never halting, never abrupt, H compassing all events in its oversight, and ever H effecting its will, though mortals may slumber B in apathy or oppose with- madness. H "Kings are lifted up or thrown down; nations H como and go; republics flourish and wither; dyn- H asties pass away like a tale that is told; but H nothing is by chanco though men in their ignor- H ance of causes may think so. H "The deeds of time are governed as well as H judged by the decrees of eternity. The caprice H of fleeting existence bends to the immovable H Omnipotence which plants its foot on all the H centuries, and has neither change of purpose nor H j repose. Sometimes like a messenger through H the thick darkness of night, it steps along mis- H ' terious ways, hut when the hour strikes for a H ( people, or for mankind to pass Into a new form H of being, unseen hands draw the bolts from the H, gates of futurity; an all subduing influence per; p! vades the minds of men for the coming change." H Some of us remember tho day when tho news was flashed to a shocked and astonished world that Mr. Lincoln had been assassinated. "Wo had been exulting since Appomattox day over the assured promise of almost immediate peace; we had been rereading the marvelous Gettysburg speech and the first and second inaugurals of Mr. Lincoln's. More and more were we comprehending compre-hending the height and depth and grandeur of tho wonderful man's real nature, when tho message mess-age came. Through our tears we could not see why it should be so. It seemed to us that he should have been spared to enjoy tho great reward that ho had earned and that his steadying hand on the helm of state was still needed. But, now, after the slow ebb and flow of half a century the vision of the real truth grows more and more distinct. Mr. Lincoln has been softly sleeping while those years have been unwinding, un-winding, but his fame has been growing. Had he heen spared, the heart burnings of reconstruction days would have caused many men to forget what he had done when the life of tho nation hung in the awful balance, his enemies would have increased; many would have doubted his inherent superiority over all the men who surrounded him; he might have died peacefully in his bed but then he would have been remembered remem-bered as other presidents are remembered. As it was, when he died, a radiance was reflected re-flected back from his ascending soul; that radiance radi-ance now makes a halo that surrounds his memory mem-ory and gives it such a splendor in the thoughts of men, as no other man has been blessed with since the tragedy on Calvary. Underlying the memory, there is, too, the lesson les-son which his life and death gives to men, which is that tho "God who rules in the affairs of men sees to it that justice is finally wrought; that nothing is overlooked or forgotten, though men iu apathy may slumber or in madness oppose." Again the hirth, the life and death of Mir. Lincoln supply a lesson that should forever banish from men everything like false pride or egotism. Born in squaller almost unthinkable, reared amid fearful hardships; tried by unparalleled unparal-leled burdens, dying at the hand of an assassin, but finally taking on an immortality which will carry increasing splendors even to the "last syllable of recorded time," is it not true that "if man would save his higher life he must lose it?" The Truths of History SPEAKING of the late Samuel Bowles, editor of the Springfield (Miass.) Republican, the Oregonian says he refused to support Blaine on account of the silver question, and supported Mc-Kinley. Mc-Kinley. That is a mistake. He had a personal antipathy against Blaine; moreover M'cKinley was at heart as strong a believer in the neces-city neces-city of remonetizing silver as was Senator Teller of Colorado. After his election he sent a commission com-mission to Europe to try to make an international interna-tional agreement to remonetize silver. That commission went to France, was enthusiastically received by the government of France, a tentative tenta-tive agreement was reached and the French minister min-ister of finance accompanied the American commissioners com-missioners to London. There a satisfactory agreement was almost reached, when Bond street and the India Council in London got busy in opposition. oppo-sition. Still it would have carried except for the dispatch which Lyman Gage, then secretary of the treasury, sent to London saying that the United States did not want remonetization. Why McKin-ley McKin-ley permitted Gage to send that cable, can only be explained by the fact that McKinley was heavily in debt to Mark Hanna and the owner of the Chicago Record and Hanna who, as chairman of the Republican National Committee, had in the McKinley campaign debauched Ohio and Illinois with tho money the eastern interest-gatherers had supplied him, and Hanna literally bulldozed M?c- J Kinley into permitting Gage to send that cable. ' The above facts were generally understood at I the time bub wo had in addition the personal word of Senator Wolcott of Colorado, who was I chairman of tho commission which went abroad, ,' that they were the real facts. Tho effect of that cable was most costly. It still continues. It has killed our export trade with half the peoples of the earth, it has demoralized de-moralized our trade with all silver countries; it has robbed the silver miners of the United States of quite a billion of dollars; it has kept the United States paying interest, on another billion of dollars that should have been paid twenty years ago; it In effect has resulted in the paying ' by the United States of a bounty of CO per cent upon all tho products that the orient can send to us. It was altogether infamous, and for the wrong, the United States is paying a mighty penalty in money and prestige every year. U The Treatment of Indians r ENERAL SCOTT',S last Indian campaign and I - conquest is a reminder that when the great Civil war broke out a regiment for the Uliion army was raised in northern California. The men enlisted expected to be sent by the next steamer for New York for service in the south. But they were sent overland through Arizona to a post In New Mexico. At the post a band of i savages Comanches we believe were being held as prisoners. They were real savages and fighters fight-ers and a source of much anxiety to the officers ' of the regiment. Among the soldiers was a young man named Baldwin who had grown from , boyhood in Marysville, Cal. He had a gift for acquiring ac-quiring languages, and in a few days had established estab-lished friendly relations with the Indians and learned to speak several Indian words. One morning ho presented himself to the colonel of the regiment and asked that the control of the ) Indians might be given him. The colonel laugh- w ingly asked him if he was planning to have himself him-self scalped. He replied that he was planning f to relieve the colonel from fear of being scalped. The favor desired was granted and he then asked that watermelon, cantelope and a dozen i other seeds and a few pounds of corn be sent for. i This was promised and he then went among the Indians and in patios and pantomime explained that he was to have charge of them; and further explained that if they would help him this was mestly done by using an army spade to dig in the soil and planting and putting some canned corn, peas, etc., then holding up his hand with his fingers for counters, further explained that "two ' moons, plenty peas, three moons, plenty cante-lopes, cante-lopes, four moons plenty watermelons, etc." i The savages comprehended and joyfully agreed. It was about the first of April. When the seeds arrived a big patch of land had been prepared. The seeds were planted, in a few days the plants appeared above ground at which the savages danced with joy. The young man acquired the language of the barbarians rapidly and in a brief time secured their entire confidence. When the peas were advanced enough to eat, Baldwin taught his wards how to cook them and with garrison salt seasoned them. The officers wanted some of the peas and were told that they were the Indians and if they wanted some of them they must pay the Indians either in cash or tobacco. This was agreed to, and one more tie of friendship was established. When the cante-lopes, cante-lopes, corn and watermelons were ready for use and sale the joy of the red men was complete. In the meantime Baldwin had established a system of rewards and punishments, by making little presents to the best working and best disposed dis-posed savages.. When October came some of the savages explained ex-plained to Baldwin that three suns away plenty of -wild turkies could bo got. Baldwin went again to the colonel and requested re-quested the use- of twenty artillery horses and as many muskets for a week or ten days, explaining explain-ing what he wanted them for. The colonel asked him if he expected to ever get back or get the horses or Indians back. The horses were finally given him. He picked cut sixteen of the Indians to accompany him and started. They made camp the first night , about twelvo miles from the post. J They had supper and rolling himself In his blanket Baldwin was soon asleep for ho was very tired. It was daylight when ho awoke. When he did he felt a sense of half suffocation. Throwing off his covering he found that a heavy rain had fallen in the night and the Indians had stripped themselves to cover him with their wolf 1 and rabbit skin robes. On the seventh day after , the band had left the camp they returned with three hon.es packed to the limit with wild turkies and each savage had three or four more on his individual horse. , After that the special guard was withdrawn, only the usual sentries were stationed at night. There was perfect peace and good will In the camp for six months, then another regiment was sent to relieve the Californians. On its arrival Baldwin explained to the new colonel what he had done with the Indians and how easy it was to get along with them, bub the colonel had different ideas of military discipline, with the result that within three months the whole band of savages had skulked away and were lost in the wilderness. If there is any lesson in the foregoing, it is that the way to control savages is through kindness kind-ness and justice and that the slaying of thousands thou-sands and tens of thousands of them all the way from the Atlantic to the Pacific would have been J unnecessary had the invading pale face only I possessed the common sense to be just. If the President Will Come West W3 hope that President Wilson will be able to make an extended visit in the west before congress meets. He would have been a wiser president had he spent a year in the far west thirty years ago for the most essential qualification of a chief magistrate magis-trate of a naticn like ours is to know the people. All the country west of Kansas City was practically prac-tically a closed book to President Cleveland and he lived and died undr the impression that the nation would be greater and stronger could it be , rid of the western half of its area, and wrapping that provincialism around him he held the west in thought very much as though it was a reserva-' reserva-' tion peopled by crafty half-savages. If President Wilson will come west he will be met by a hospitality such as he never saw in New Jersey, and will be made to take on new and enlarged en-larged ideas of the great republic. Typhus WE have heard little from Servia for several weeks except that it is being scourged by typhus, that is an enemy more to be dreaded than shot and shell. Typhus is not a common ailment in the United States. It is a filth disease and is transmitted from the sick through bedbugs, fleas and other vermin. It is very swift in its course and very fatal, though while many ships bearing the infection have pulled into New York harbor during the past four months, the medical quarantine officers of that port have been able to prevent it from spreading. Our little army has been made almost immune against typhoid by the typhoid serum. As yet, "MB Man HHKnHnHBHHHHplHHI as we understand it, no bucIi preventative against typhus has ibeen found. It has been and is raging fearfully in the Servian army. The medical men as is understood, depend chiefly upon perfect sanitation and the isolation of the sick to arrest the disease and both are more or less impossible in the Servian army. It is whispered, too, that cholera is prevalent in southern Europe. The good books says that ' Cleanliness is next to Godliness." It is certain that only perfect cleanliness can arrest an epidemic epi-demic of typhus and that is next to impossible in an army like that of iServia. Were both typhus and cholera to become epidemic, epi-demic, it is possible that they might compel a peace for they are more terrible than sword and gun. What Was the Reason? T S it (possible that the reason the trouble started at the University was through a determination to so adjust matters as to place Ml. Widtsoe in a position so that upon the retirement of President Presi-dent Kingsbury, the said Widtsoe would be in direct line for the presidency of the University? If that was the object, what for? Was it because of superior scholarship, peculiar fitness for the place, high character, broad-mindedness, exalted appreciation of what the conduct of a University should be, or what? A good many people who pay taxes and who are anxious that the Utah University should rate with the foremost in all the land, are most anxious to find the African in. the University woodpile. Daniel P. Simmons THE death of Mr. Simmons was most unexpected. unex-pected. The ancients called Death the brother of sleep. While Mr. Simmons was held in soft repose by the one brother, the other brother with silent step came and touched his sleep and the repose deepened into the final sleep. Mr. Simmons was known by every one. A kindly, genial, industrious and faithful man, with hosts of friends and no enemies of whom we ever heard. Giving promise of many more years of effort; he died as he had lived, quietly and without ostentation; osten-tation; the struggle against competition, in a moment's transition passed into the eternal calm. The wave that bore him away was "as the tide, that moving seems asleep no moaning on the bar" may that rest be complete. |